Has Star Trek Lost Its Way?
As I mention in this YouTube review, I had a grand time watching the new Star Trek movie. Afterwards, I started thinking about it, and I had second thoughts. What do you think?
Why Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam Is Worth Watching
Note: This is the second in my series of articles on each show in the Gundam franchise. I don’t have a specific schedule for this; I’m just writing these reviews as I feel like it. The last one was Why You Should Watch Mobile Suit Gundam. Four years after the broadcast of the original Mobile Suit Gundam (which was not particularly popular during its broadcast), and the increasing popularity thereof thanks to the three movie […]
Why You Should Watch Mobile Suit Gundam
This is intended to be the first of a multi-part series where I write about each major animated work in the Gundam universe. I want people to know what each of these shows has to offer. About spoilers: I won’t tell you who dies, but this is a review of a 30-year-old show, for Pete’s sake. Anything I write about here has long since been analyzed frame-by-frame on 2ch. Mobile Suit Gundam, of course, […]
Eulogizing Peter Drucker’s The Effective Executive
There are a number of blog posts and articles about essential business books. “Ten books everyone entering the working world should read,” and such. I only have two. One, Getting Things Done, I’ve already talked about quite a bit here. Just about everyone needs some way to organize their work. GTD does a great job […]
A Japanese Noir French New Wave Black-and-White Yakuza Film
So imagine a Japanese film, set in the 1960’s, involving a down-and-out Japanese private investigator named Maiku Hamma (“My real name,” he says), who takes a missing-person case and winds up in the middle of a yakuza/triad turf war. He drives a convertible, wears a samurai-style jacket, and has an shoebox-sized office over a movie […]
P.T. Barnum Saves the World
This was a random, wonderful discovery at my local comic shop, and one of the advantages of and reasons for local comic shops. Barnum tells the story of P.T. Barnum, who gets drafted as a special agent to stop a mad Nicola Tesla from assassinating President Harding in a bid to take over the world. […]
The first samurai manga: Dororo
I recently finished reading something special. Dororo is a 3-volume manga by the “God of Manga,” Osamu Tezuka. It’s essentially the invention of the modern samurai adventure genre. Man, is it dark. The story opens with a young father who promises his unborn son’s body parts to 48 demons, in return for land and power. […]
Review and Contemplations on Making It All Work
It’s funny what disappoints people. Years ago, David Allen created a productivity system called Getting Things Done, which I’ve talked about quite a lot here on the blog. He recently published a new book, Making It All Work, and the GTD community has gotten excited about what new gems of wisdom it might contain. There’s […]
The Guerilla Art Kit
So, a couple of weeks ago I was in a fancy stationery store, which sells all sorts of satisfyingly tactile papers, pens, sealing wax, etc. Which was where I looked down and saw a book called the Guerilla Art Kit. It’s a celebration of public artwork, such as posters and stickers posted on public buildings […]
The Abominable Charles Christopher
There are so many good webcomics. And so many good artists. The Abominable Charles Christopher updates only once a week, and it’s a four-panel strip, so not much happens. It’s slow. And it’s beautiful and emotionally involving. It’s drawn by an artist who works at LucasArts, so its beauty should not be surprising. But the […]